If you were one of the 27 million people on Christmas Eve unable to watch a marathon of holiday specials via Netflix, well, now you have the reason behind this mass outage: The bunglers -- in Netflix's opinion, at least -- thatThe company's video streaming service went down for an undetermined number of people across the Americas yesterday. The outage continued into Christmas morning for some customers. Read this article by NatalieThe "Netflix amendment" to the Video Privacy Protection Act is headed to President Barack Obama's desk for his signature after it was unanimously passed by the Senate on Dec. 20. The bill was crafted to let the movie rental giant allow users to shareThe online movie firm saw its shares pick up about 1.5% by Wednesday afternoon, with Amazon.com /quotes/zigman/63011 /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN appearing to pay the price for the outage as its own stock gave up nearly 4%. Amazon's drop was likelyNetflix customers have been upset since the movie service went out on Christmas eve leaving many customers without their favorite Christmas movies. Now, Netflix is saying the issue was the result of an outage at an Amazon web services' center in Virginia.
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